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鈥淎n Everyday Evacuee鈥�

Sometime after this, Pat Martin arrived from London... My sister, Peg, was very helpful in that she took...

The Doodlebug in the Village

My Experience of World War Two

I was seven when the war began, I lived in a terraced house with my parents, brother and two sisters, our...

Fact or Fiction!

He was on his way to the bridge over the Ribble by De-tabley and he was stopped and an...

War Time in Tansor

During the war I lived with my parents in a big house in Tansor, Northamptonshire. My dad was an ARP...

A Guernsey girl in London waits in vain for her parents

Your parents thought it would be right for you to go, initially to London鈥� Well they were hoping to...

'Please can we shelter?' - advantages of being prepared

Shelters differed from house to house; there could be a 'Morrison Shelter' which was like a large...

Rural Devon in 1942

She remembers also hearing Lord Haw-Haw saying : 'Tonight we will bomb Crediton Church'. The church...

Fyffes banana story

It was for FYFFES BANANAS with these bunches of YELLOW THINGS hanging down - I had never seen a banana and...

flying tree

In London we had always had rented accomodation but had to give it up when we went to Seasalter, so my dad...

I Stole Monty鈥檚 Bus

After about two miles we saw the local bus 鈥楳onty's鈥� parked up and since we could both...

Childhood Memories

On the Arnhem raid the paratroopers were in gliders and planes and the sky was full as far as the eye could...

Childhood Memories In The North East

A childs memories of WW2

We arrived back in Leeds after the holiday and found few children left in Leeds as they had been...

Holy Trinity Infant School

Sometimes after school I was met by my cousin Valerie and we would play on the bombed sites before arriving...

Through a Child's Eyes

I was about eight years old in 1939 when the Second World War started, going to Hyde Park Junior School......

Enham El Alamein

At the time I was living in a village called Enham near Newbury, which was renowned for the number of...

Evacuation to Wales

So I was evacuated to Prestatyn in Wales with two younger brothers... I went back to Prestatyn and visited...

Shed load

Dried peas, porridge oats, eggs, chocolate, tins of fruit, flour had all shed all over the road. We turned...

Climbing trees and fences

When I was expecting, me and another girl at the home we went out and saw this orchard and thought...

Memories of World War 2

One of my first memories is of seeing a barrage balloon for the first time floating over my school and then...

Memorable extraction!

The most memorable guest for Glen though was an Army Officer who was a dentist, and one day upon...

Evacuation to Cornwall

I lived with my mother and brother and sister in a cottage in Cornwall. I love Cornwall now, but my wife...

My personal Memories of the war

My cousin Johnny and me went with my mum and my Aunt Ada... After a while we went back to live with...

end to end

I was being brought home from school by my niece and in the lane in which we lived, a number of bren...

A boy's memory of Bristol Blitzes

We were on the outskirts of Bristol on a hill....